Arabic vocabulary
بَاتُواthey spent the night, they were overtaken in Arabic
بَاتُوا is how you say “they spent the night, they were overtaken” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
فقضى لهم حياة وقضى عليهم مماتا،
So He decreed for them life, and He decreed upon them death.
باتا — they spent the night. Past-tense verb, 'they spent the night', read as a plural to match the 'how many' before it. The verb carries its subject in its ending; the exclamatory frame counts how many passed the night a certain way.
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